NY Theremin Society "Thereminage à trois" @ Joe's Pub 4/17

The NY Theremin Society presents:
"Thereminage à trois"
Performances on Theremin by:
Dorit Chrysler
Scott Robinson
Rob Schwimmer

Friday April 17th - 9pm
Joe's Pub
at the Public Theater
425 Lafayette St.
NYC, NY 10003-7021
212-539-8770

Tickets & Info: http://joespub.publictheater.org/en/tickets/calendar/playdetailscollection/joes-pub/2015/n/ny-theremin-society/?SiteTheme=JoesPub

Price: $15
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"The Theremin is cool and now"
 The NY Theremin Society in The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324669104578203943527912734.html
 

An evening of three accomplished Thereminists is rare enough, but to hear a rendition of Bernard Herrmann's "The Day the Earth Stood Still" performed by a trio of thereminists does not happen every day. Dorit Chrysler, Rob Schwimmer and Scott Robinson attempt the impossible and present their latest solo works (including a number of premieres) and collaborations on Theremin - The NY Theremin Society presents this evening and continues its famed series of showcasing the sonic spectrum of the most underestimated instrument of the 21st century...

" There have never been as many thereminists in the world as there are right now... "

April 17th at Joe's Pub - "Thereminage à trois" 3 Thereminists present their works :

DORIT CHRYSLER , "a futuristic Lotte Lenya" Wall Street Journal, has been commissioned for the MoMA this year. Her compositions have been performed at the Venice Biennale '13, Lincoln Center, Performa, Vienna Konzerthaus, Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Berlin Biennale and Palais Tokyo..Her most recent record "Avalanche" has been produced by Anders Trentemøller with whom she also toured extensively and headlined Roskilde Festival.  Dorit has cofounded the NY Theremin Society and is the founder of America's first Theremin School for Kids, the Kid Cool Theremin School. She is a Moog music artist and is currently holding a long term residency at Pioneerworks.org helping to build their music department. www.doritchrysler.com/

SCOTT ROBINSON  One of today's most wide-ranging instrumentalists, Scott Robinson has been heard on tenor sax with Buck Clayton's band, on trumpet with Lionel Hampton's quintet, on alto clarinet with Paquito D'Rivera's clarinet quartet, and on bass sax with the New York City Opera. On these and other instruments including theremin and ophicleide, he has been heard with a cross-section of jazz's greats representing nearly every imaginable style of the music, from Braff to Braxton. Scott has been heard numerous times on film, radio and television, and his discography now includes more than 235 recordings. His releases as a leader have garnered five-star reviews from Leonard Feather, Down Beat Magazine and other sources worldwide, and have appeared in many "Best of the Year" lists. Scott's collaborators on disc have included Frank Wess, Hank Jones, Joe Lovano, Ron Carter, and Bob Brookmeyer, and he has been a member of Maria Schneider's Orchestra for twenty years. Scott recently released Bronze Nemesis, a CD featuring 12 compositions based on the exploits of 1930s pulp adventure hero Doc Savage. This project, ten years in the making, was greeted with extensive praise in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Down Beat and elsewhere.
http://home.earthlink.net/~smoulden/scott/bio.html

ROB SCHWIMMER "...his moving reading of Wagner's "Träume" suggested a reassessment of the theremin's potential." (WSJ)   A pianist-composer described as a "Theremin master"  in The New York Times (which also praised Rob's " virtuosity, magic and humor") and a "Theremin hero" in The New Yorker, Rob was theremin soloist with The Orchestra of St. Luke's at Caramoor playing the premiere of Bernard Herrmann's Scene d'Amour from Vertigo performed with theremin for the first time and played theremin and piano on Matthew Barney's epic Cremaster 3 movie. An original member of The NY Theremin Society as well as a founding member of Polygraph Lounge,  Rob has worked with Wayne Shorter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Paul Simon, Bobby McFerrin, Willie Nelson, Chaka Khan, Laurie Anderson, Simon & Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, Bette Midler, Adam Guettel, T-Bone Walker, Sam Rivers, Marc Shaiman, Trey Anastasio,  The Klezmatics, Theo Bleckmann, Christian Marclay, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marshall Brickman, Mary Cleere Haran, Arif Mardin, Mabou Mines, John Cale, Steve Buscemi, Burt Bacharach, The Roches, Edie Brickell, Teo Macero, Hal Willner, Vernon Reid, The Everly Brothers, Ethel, Kurt Vonnegut, Sammy Davis... Rob has recently added the Haken Continuum to his arsenal of instruments. Rob has played at Carnegie Hall & CBGB's, The Tokyo Dome & The Stone, and for strippers at truckers conventions.
http://www.robschwimmer.com

Together DORIT & ROB , in addition to individual and collective concertizing, curate the concert series of the NY Theremin Society, teach adult and children's theremin workshops and have recently conducted a historic 17-piece theremin orchestra.

VIDEO
Dorit Chrysler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztfegVzqeCI

Rob Schwimmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKiqQJhYj74


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Founded by Suzanne Fiol and Dorit Chrysler, musician/composer, the NY THEREMIN SOCIETY launched its concert series December 2nd 2005, bringing together skilled interpreters on Theremin, each presenting their solo works and joining in an experimental Theremin Orchestra. Those concert series took place at Issue Project Room and sold out regularly, featuring noted players such as Pamelia Kurstin,  Dalit Warshaw, Anthony Ptak, Elizabeth Brown , David Simons & Armen Ra,  just to name a few.  The NY Theremin Society started to serve as a platform for  Thereminists and Enthusiasts and its mission statement evolved; namely to exchange, inspire and educate , as well as to demonstrate the surprising variety of different approaches that this relativ ely young and unique instrument has to offer in the contemporary world of music. The NY Theremin Society was instrumental in the recreation of a Ten Piece Theremin Orchestra performing at the LA Disney Hall (emulating the first theremin orchestra concert taking place at Carnegie Hall in 1930.) The NY THEREMIN SOCIETY has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, Fox News, Al Jazeera TV, The Wall Street Journal, and many other news outlets. Also the SOCIETY offers adult and children's theremin workshops.

THE THEREMIN
Invented 1919 by Russian electro physicist Lev Sergejewitch Termen, the Theremin is the only instrument that generates sound without being touched. Notoriously hard to play, it is one of the first electronic  instruments that inspired the creation of synthesizers in future generations. Historically, the theremin is one of the earliest electronic instruments, introduced to audiences in the early 20th century. Subsequently, it served as the basis from which electronic musical instruments of the 20th century were later developed. Although originally intended for classical music performance, the theremin instead found its success supplying 'eerie' background music for countless motion pictures. Whether that it is due to its unusual frequency and vibrato effects, or the challenge posed upon the player to master its technique, the theremin has never been a widely-played instrument.

Yet today, among fields of electronic musicians, many more are rediscovering the potential of the theremin and exploring its complex and expressive sounds, pitches, movements, and gestures through various styles and media. In 1966 the Beach Boy's Brian Wilson put the Theremin to work in "Good Vibrations". In 1967 Theremins showed up on Captain Beefheart's landmark "Safe as Milk" and in 1969, Led Zeppelin anthem "Whole Lotta Love" featured a Theremin. Today artists such as Jon Spencer, Portishead, Nine Inch Nails, Elvis Costello, Trey Anstasio, and Simon & Garfunkel have put the instrument to use.

Leon Theremin emigrated to New York City in late 1927, quickly establishing a laboratory dedicated to the scientific study of electronic sound; in April of 1930, a Ten Piece Theremin Orchestra premiered on the stage of Carnegie Hall to enthusiastic response. A decade later, Theremin was whisked back to the Soviet Union (involuntarily, some have said) and placed in Butyrka prison, eventually working  in a Soviet think-tank  to develop a covert listening device for the Soviet government. Following Theremin’s abrupt departure and reassignment, his instrument inspired a handful of virtuosos, most notably Clara Rockmore and Samuel J. Hoffman, but ultimately fell into obscurity when suddenly...
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Dorit Chrysler , "a futuristic Lotte Lenya" Wall Street Journal, has been commissioned for the MoMA this year. Her compositions have been performed at the Venice Biennale '13, Lincoln Center, Performa, Vienna Konzerthaus, Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Berlin Biennale and Palais Tokyo..Her most recent record "Avalanche" has been produced by Anders Trentemøller with whom she also toured extensively and headlined Roskilde Festival.  Dorit has cofounded the NY Theremin Society and is the founder of America's first Theremin School for Kids, the Kid Cool Theremin School. She is a Moog music artist and is currently holding a long term residency at Pioneerworks.org helping to build their music department. www.doritchrysler.com/

Rob Schwimmer is a composer-pianist/keyboardist, thereminist and Continuum player who has performed and recorded throughout the world. Working as a solo artist, founding member of the highly acclaimed Polygraph Lounge music and comedy duo with  multi-instrumentalist Mark Stewart (Bang On A Can Allstars/Paul Simon) and co-curator and original member of The NY Theremin Society, Rob's solo piano CD "Beyond The Sky" was hailed as "Extraordinary" in Gramophone, "Shaping up to be the finest solo piano CD of the year" in The Jazz Record-NY and praised for his " virtuosity, magic and humor" in The New York Times. In addition to world touring with Simon and Garfunkel, Rob has worked with Wayne Shorter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Paul Simon, Bobby McFerrin, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Chaka Khan, Laurie Anderson, Bette Midler, Queen Latifah, Arif Mardin, Adam Guettel, Mary Cleere Haran, T-Bone Walker, Sam Rivers, Marc Shaiman, The Klezmatics, Christian Marclay, Matthew Barney, David Krakauer, Ang Lee, Maria Schneider, Michel Gondry, Trey Anastasio, Bernie Worrell, Nels Cline, Annette Peacock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marshall Brickman, Karen Black, Larry Campbell, Josh Groban, Mabou Mines, Geoffrey Holder, John Cale, Steve Buscemi, Theo Bleckmann, John Stubblefield, Burt Bacharach, The Roches,  Edie Brickell, Teo Macero, Hal Willner, Vernon Reid, The Everly Brothers, Ethel, James Emery, Bela Fleck, Lenny Kaye, Kurt Vonnegut, Anjani Thomas, Odetta, Drepung Loseling Tibetan Monks, Sussan Deyhim, Bernie Worrell, producer John Simon, Joseph Jarman, Alwin Nikolai/ Murray Louis Dance Company, Marc Ribot, Frank London, C&C Music Factory and Sammy Davis Jr. among others. Rob has played at Carnegie Hall & CBGB's, The Tokyo Dome & The Stone, and for strippers at truckers conventions, etc. robschwimmer.com

Together Dorit & Rob , in addition to individual and collective concertizing, curate the concert series of the NY Theremin Society, teach adult and children's theremin workshops and have recently conducted a historic 17-piece theremin orchestra.